Recent content by Flaggro

I agree, but it seems to me like they're very inconsistent at it. On the one hand, all of the aggressive leaders seem to just take over any city state within reach. Those that do try to ally with them seem to do so only later in the game. In my own experience, Catherine was great at juggling...

Personally, I prefer playing without them right now. They're just gigantic goodie huts. Even disregarding the fast start, it's almost a given that, at some point in the game, you're going to get so much free influence from clearing barb camps, liberating, defending, or creating GPs for...

Forest grows pretty fast and over large areas, even when thoroughly cleared. It can take less than a century. Really, if you leave a place alone, forest WILL regrow, and fast. Going back to strictly gameplay considerations, I never really cared too much about forest growth. If one grew...

To follow up on what a few others have pointed out, the AI will never be, tactically speaking, very sharp. It is insanely difficult to create intelligent AI (Chess AI, which some would characterize as "simple," is in fact mindbogglingly complex--look up Chess AI on Wikipedia and you'll have a...